Well we just were'nt meant to have a big sketch day today! Our plans to go to the Japanese Friendship Garden (appropriate for the event today) were overturned by a high enrtrance fee and a crowded music festival. Our good fallback, the Botanical Garden closed at noon. We all made the best of it though and each got a sketch or two in. There were five of us at the garden and now we are dispersing to crawl home and add a few more along the way. Here are mine so far:

I had a great time, even though it was shorter than we expected. Here's my "alien snail cactus" painting from the garden, plus another attempt at a Japanese style tree that I did at home this afternoon. I'm still working on the tree technique.